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8th grade Thanksgiving music composition graphic organizers
History of Thanksgiving Reading and Crossword Activity
In this Thanksgiving history lesson activity, students complete three hands-on activities to learn about the history and origins of the Thanksgiving holiday. Students complete a focused reading assignment that introduces readers to the origins of this holiday, what it was like, and the major participants in the first Thanksgiving celebration. In this first activity, students are introduced to the role of Native Americans like Squanto, the Pilgrims, William Bradford, and the experiences of this
Grades:
5th - 8th
Turkey Nonfiction Reading Passage Middle School Thanksgiving Reading Activities
This middle school reading level nonfiction reading passage has students read about turkeys. It goes through the anatomy of turkeys, facts about them, and the history of turkeys in America. Then there are 6 different activities including a page of comprehension questions, graphic organizers to practice identifying the story elements of nonfiction text, a graphic organizer for identifying the nonfiction text features, a Venn diagram to compare and contrast wild and domestic turkeys, a blank turke
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passages for Text Structure - PDF and Digital
Make nonfiction text structure fun and easy to teach this Thanksgiving with high-interest reading passages! This bestselling set of Thanksgiving reading comprehension passages, graphic organizers, and nonfiction text structure lesson plans will provide the perfect activities to fill your Thanksgiving week with fascinating facts and rigorous reading practice! (Don't worry, Virginia teachers: the vocabulary page is also adapted for teaching this topic as organizational pattern.)Here's what's inclu
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Bundle - Printable & Digital
Music Appreciation Worksheets - Elements of Music - Middle School General Music
Music Listening Worksheets. These music listening concept maps will enable your students to organize their thoughts during your Music Appreciation Lessons. They can also be used to assess how deeply students understand the elements of music. SAVINGS BUNDLE:Music Listening Worksheets BundlePRINTABLE OR DIGITAL:Choose Your Format - These activities come in 2 different formats. 1. PRINTABLE FORMATPrint off the student's response pages individually or combine them to create a student workbook.2. DIG
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Text Structures Newsletter: Thanksgiving Edition
In a newsletter format, articles about Thanksgiving are presented in different nonfiction text structures. Students read the newsletter and then complete a chart that identifies the text structure, signal words, author's purpose, and a useful graphic organizer. There is also an option to select two of the articles and complete a graphic organizer for each. This activity covers the following text structures: chronological or sequential, main idea, compare and contrast, cause and effect, or proble
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Text Structures Newsletters: Holiday Bundle
The Blind Side, Movie Viewing Unit, Questions/Activities
This movie pack for The Blind Side is designed for use as you show this film as a text. You can use it in its entirety or pick and choose what works for you. Student Experience: The anticipatory set activity will immediately draw students into the themes and ideas presented in the movie. While they watch, students will answer questions on the graphic organizer. The questions ask them to consider the movie as a whole and apply their knowledge and understanding of key ELA skills/terms. A writin
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities for Teens, Mini Unit, BUNDLE
Thanksgiving Activities Middle School ELA and High School - Gratitude Lesson
Are you searching for Thanksgiving activities to implement with your students that also hold academic value? Engage and motivate with this nonfiction text and media analysis mini-unit! The materials focus on the theme of gratitude and feature real-life inspirational teens. The lessons help facilitate a positive growth mind-set and can empower students to become more proactive in their schools and communities.Students will read informational text articles and view video clips of inspirational tee
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Thanksgiving Activities: Informational Reading Comprehension ESL Gen Ed
Use this informational text to teach about the history behind Thanksgiving for grades 3-6 and English Language Learners of all ages. The vocabulary, reading, compare and contrast, and grammar activities will engage your students as they interact with this historical event that has shaped American culture.This unit will easily take you through November. Visit my blog to see student samples and to see how I teach this unit.*** Important Update: This resource can be printed using the .pdf files
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
CCSS Aligned Informative Essay Outline and Guide
This informative essay outline, guide, and rubric will help students develop a well written essay that includes a thesis, details that support their thesis, a creative introduction, and a thought provoking conclusion.
This guide is a great tool to use to model essay writing with students and a great place for students to organize their thoughts.
Included in this downloadable PDF are:
A guide that explains all the different parts of an essay
A 5 page outline
A checklist for self and peer edi
Grades:
6th - 12th
ESL Newcomer Thanksiving Reading Comprehension & Activities
Help your Newcomer & Beginner Level ESOL understand the Thanksgiving Fall holiday in the U.S. Students will learn how and why Thanksgiving began and how it is celebrated today. The reading and activities will help your newcomer students understand this iconic American cultural holiday.**NOTE: This resource can be printed using the .pdf files or downloaded to your Google Drive. Upon downloading the resource, you will find the google drive link on page 3 of the Teacher's Guide.*** If you tea
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Note Reading Cheat Sheet
Just a handy and colorful cheat sheet for note reading! Print on cardstock for a durable copy. The kids LOVE this thing.
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
ESL/EFL Thanksgiving Foods Lesson with Article, Worksheets and Graphic Organizer
This resource includes all the materials you need to teach your ESL students about traditional Thanksgiving Foods. In the download, you receive: 1. A Suggested Uses for Teachers Page 2. A Pre-Reading Vocabulary Worksheet 3. A 2-Page Article about Thanksgiving Foods with Visuals 4. Reading Comprehension Questions 5. A Graphic Organizer for describing the different foods 6. 2 Worksheets to practice the Food Names 7. An Answer Key is included for all worksheets This lesso
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Bundle: Thanksgiving Materials for Youth and Adult ESL/EFL Students
Music/Hand Staff Posters! Instant Assessment Tool & Graphic Organizer
Music/Hand Staff Posters! Instant Assessment Tool & Graphic OrganizerThese Music/Hand Staff graphic organizers can be printed out as posters, handouts, or projected using a computer, smart board, or overhead projector, etc. The first page shows the treble clef, page two shows the bass clef, and page three reviews the note names for the treble and bass clefs on two large music staves (all three pages are in either COLOR or B+W, in case you need to print large quantities for a class or if you
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1st - 10th, Adult Education
Thank you, Sarah - Thanksgiving Persuasive Letter Writing Unit
Want your students to write powerful letters that can help make a difference in the world? This unit begins with a dive into Sarah Hale's campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. Then students go through detailed steps to write their own letters to make change happen.This packet includes:- Character word splash- Sequencing activity - link to the letter Sarah Hale wrote to Abraham Lincoln- brainstorming sheet for writing- two detailed graphic organizers to add details- letter writing tem
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
SOLFEGE Poster With KODÁLY/CURWEN Hand Signs *3rd Grade through 12th Grade*
SOLFEGE Poster With KODÁLY/CURWEN Hand Signs *3rd Grade through 12th Grade*These solfege posters (which can also be used as a handout) display the corresponding Curwen/Kodály hand signs and can be used as a useful graphic organizer that helps students learn the Kodály/Curwen hand signs and syllables also known as Solfege or Solfa. Using these hand signs as a teaching tool for beginners is incredibly useful in almost any music teaching situation. The posters include photographs of Zoltan Kodály a
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Grades:
K - 12th
Drama Writing Graphic Organizer
An organizer built to help students in the early stages of play writing. Great for assembly skits and drama classes!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education
FREE Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passage - Printable & Digital
Keep students engaged during the short Thanksgiving week with a fun reading passage about pie! While they're thinking about crispy crusts and tasty fillings, you'll be able to teach or review sequencing, text structure, main idea, and more informational text skills.(If you love this free resource, you won't want to miss my entire Thanksgiving Nonfiction Reading Passages Bundle!)This value-packed freebie includes:Full-page informational text - "The History of Pie"Reading questionsSequence chartGo
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Bundle - Printable & Digital
A Cornucopia of Tier-2 Vocabulary {for Older Students}
This packet is designed to help teach students look beyond the memorization of dictionary definitions and further develop a deeper understanding of tier-2 vocabulary words . In addition, it addresses comprehension skills through “WH” questions related to the content of the passages that require thoughtful, inferential responses.Object of the game: Read the passages aloud to/with your students. Roll the dice and pick the numbered tier -2 word in one of the passages that corresponds. Be the fi
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in: Fall Language Bundle for Older Students
SOLFEGE Foldable Mini Book *8-Page* Curwen/Kodály Hand Signs (Grades 1-12)
SOLFEGE Foldable Mini Book *8-Page* Curwen/Kodály Hand SignsThis eight-page foldable mini-book for Solfege is a useful graphic organizer that helps students learn the Kodály/Curwen hand signs and syllables also known as Solfege or Solfa. Using these hand signs as a teaching tool for beginners is incredibly useful in all situations. Providing students with a fun visual aid that can be personalized, colored in and folded into a book not only reinforces the concepts of the Solfege hand signs and sy
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
Mallet Percussion Major Scales Reference Guide/Worksheet
Percussionists are usually visual learners. Seeing the shapes and patterns of how major scales are built allows them to internalize and memorize them better.This PDF worksheet includes a picture of a keyboard next to each scale so students can color in the notes of each scale and see the visual pattern of the scale!WORKSHEET INCLUDES:• 12 Major Scales notated in the Circle of 5ths• Key Signatures• Keyboard Graphic next to each scale• Line for students to write # of sharps/flats for each scale•
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Chinese Chat Mat - Gratitude in Chinese Characters & Pinyin Support SEL
⭐ Looking to enhance your students' speaking skills and promote communicative competence in the classroom? Look no further! These chat mats are innovative tools designed to facilitate engaging and authentic conversations among students, providing them with a structured framework and prompts to guide their discussions.⭐ By using Chat Mats in the classroom, students are encouraged to actively participate in conversations and collaborate with their peers. ⭐ This promotes communicative competence by
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Prayer Journal Templates for Middle School
These five reproducible templates will help your students develop a stronger relationship with God. There are teacher and student explanation pages which outline the four different types of prayer: The Examen of Saint Ignatius, ACTS prayer, Lectio Divina and Gratitude Journaling (there are two templates for this- a daily and a weekly). All templates have been used in my classroom and work great!
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Thanksgiving Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for Thanksgiving has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubr
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Thanksgiving Descriptive Writing | Describe a Turkey, Pumpkin, Gingerbread House
Describe a turkey, pumpkin pie or gingerbread house! This fun descriptive writing task includes everything you need to support your less able students and stretch your gifted ones. No mention of Thanksgiving or Christmas on the sheets for a fully inclusive activity!Includes...visual prompts on the first sheetdifferentiated word banks of sensory wordsthemed writing paperWord banks are for sight, sound, smell and touch - taste is not included, but you could always do this as a separate challenging
Grades:
5th - 8th
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